Consumer Driven Health Care

An index following the average cost for health care is up a fourth consecutive time since the index hit its lowest annual growth rate in April, Standard & Poor says.

Employees still really care about health benefitsapparently now more than ever. In fact, its so important to them that employees say (via a Mercer workplace survey) theyre willing to take on higher out-of-pocket costs if it means they get to keep them.

New survey results from Mercer show employees are willing to take on higher out-of-pocket costs if it means they get to keep their health benefits.

Consumers can now check up on thousands of doctors and chiropractors in Illinois, including accessing information about malpractice cases, thanks to a public database that went back online Wednesday.

Full-time U.S. workers who have chronic health troubles or are overweight cost more than $153 billion in lost productivity each year, according to a Gallup-Healthways study released Monday.

As employers look for ways to better control health care costs, many are turning more and more to high-deductible health plans.

Hospital stays for heart failure fell a remarkable 30 percent in Medicare patients over a decade, the first such decline in the United States and forceful evidence that the nation is making headway in reducing the billion-dollar burden of a common condition.

Id like to take back what I said last week about how a little personal responsibility can get you in shape and save your company money.